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Adrià Mitjavila Ventura
MSc | Bioinformatician at Institut Josep Carreras
Biotechnologist with training in Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatics. Interested in omics data analysis to study the mechanisms of gene regulation in mammals. See more about me on my website.
Experience
Bioinformatician
Institut Josep Carreras
Badalona, Spain
08/2021 - Present
Study of PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), their biogenesis and variation across species. | Processing and analysis of smallRNA-seq data to study piRNAs across species.
Bioinformatician
Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Milan, Italy
07/2019 - 07/2021
Study of Wnt/\(\beta\)catenin signaling pathway -and others- in the context of colorectal cancer and stem cell development. | Analysis and integration of RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq data.
Master’s thesis student & Research assistant
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
09/2017 - 10/2018
Study of Xrn1 and Ccr4 roles in yeast nucleosome architecture and gene transcription. | Analysis of MNase-seq data. | Performance and analysis of MNase-qPCR experiments.
Internship & Bachelor’s thesis student
Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.
Girona, Spain
09/2016 - 06/2017
Microbiological and molecular analyses for pathogen detection and food forensics. | Study of butyrate effects on the ileal microbiota of colectomized colorectal cancer patients.
Education
MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Online
2018 - 2022
Overall grade: 8.94 | Master’s thesis: Analysis of the variation in piRNA expression across three Mus species (thesis grade: 9.78/10, with honours).
MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Seville, Spain
2017 - 2018
Overall grade: 9.33/10 | Master’s thesis: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription (thesis grade: 9.2/10).
BSc in Biotechnology
Universitat de Girona (UdG)
Girona, Spain
2012 - 2017
Overall grade: 8.12/10 | Bachelor’s thesis: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy (thesis grade: 9.4/10)
Publications
Begley et al. Xrn1 influence on gene transcription results from the combination of general effects on elongating RNA pol II and gene-specific chromatin configuration. RNA Biology 2020. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1845504
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